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Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization? : evidence from PPS-DRG tariffs in Italian regions
Cappellari, Lorenzo; De Paoli, Anna; Turati, Gilberto - 2016
We exploit variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of region-specific tariffs within a Prospective Pay System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health care services. We consider survey data for the years...
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Skilled labour migration and firm performance : evidence from English hospitals and brexit
Fischer, Kai - 2023
workers across hospital providers in pre-referendum years, I find that providers with a mean share of EU nurses before the … referendum persistently face 2% more hospital-related deaths after the referendum. This translates to 5,900 additional hospital …
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Can regional decentralisation shift health care preferences?
Costa-Font, Joan; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2017
Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer - such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential mechanism to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761622
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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015 - Date: October 26, 2015
This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...
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State intervention on the market for natural damage insurance in Europe
Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - 2003
In this paper we briefly summarise the results of our studies of the property insurance market in 5 countries, Britain, Spain, France, Switzerland and Germany. We then draw conclusions, how the market for insurance against natural disasters (such as floods or subsidence) should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511057
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Pharmaceutical innovation, longevity, and medical expenditure in Greece, 1995 - 2010
Lichtenberg, Frank - 2015
death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995 - 2010. The estimates indicate that … increases in the number of hospital days. Real per capita pharmaceutical expenditure increased rapidly during this period, but … 62% of the increase in pharmaceutical expenditure was offset by a reduction in hospital expenditure attributable to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473542
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On the optimal "lockdown" during an epidemic
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2020
We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity and duration. The optimal policy reflects the rate of time preference, epidemiological factors, the hazard rate of vaccine discovery, learning effects in the health care...
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A multiplicity of approaches to institutional analysis : applications to the government and the arts
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
Four types of economicsʺ relevant for institutional analysis are distinguished: Standard Neoclassical Economics; Socio-Economics or Social Economics; New Institutional Economics; and Psychological Economics (often misleadingly called Behavioural Economics). The paper argues that an extension of...
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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?
Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377261
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'Whatever is, is right? : Economic institutions in pre-industrial Europe (Tawney lecture 2006)
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597971